The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End By Neil Howe

The brilliant mind behind the passion for top sellersAgain looking to American history to predict our future, The Fourth Turning offers a startling and hopeful picture of how this era of civil unrest will end over the next ten years and what life will be like after.

With a radical new theory of American history, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss astonished the world 25 years ago. They found a definite pattern after examining the previous 500 years: cycles of contemporary history, lasting around 80100 years, or the duration of a lengthy human life. Four eras, or "turnings," make up each cycle; they always happen in the same sequence and span around 20 years each. The fourth turning, the last of these phases, has historically been the riskiest; it is a moment of political turmoil and national mobilization with suffering and changes akin to those of the American Revolution, American Civil War, and Great Depression.

At last, our fourth turning has occurred on time. Neil Howe has thus produced an astounding new prognosis. The split, the increasing likelihood of civil conflict, and the possibility of global war will have reached a crescendo by the early 2030s, which is both very dangerous and extremely hopeful, perhaps bringing in the next golden age of American history. For better or bad, the way this issue is handled will be greatly influenced by every generation that exists now.

The Fourth Turning Is Here is instructive, distressing, but ultimately powerful. It discusses the present crisis, looks at how the political, social, and economic difficulties we face in the next ten years will impact each of us individually, and shows how our country, our communities, and our families may best prepare to meet these issues head-on.

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